There comes a time in every man’s, woman’s, and child’s life when a word gets trapped in the brain. A trick might help get the word out again. But what is the trick?
The words that have been stuck in my head lately are Superfluous and Extraneous. It doesn’t help at all that people at my work insist on adding the most superfluous things to the daily grind. The two words pop up to the front of conversations, especially with the people who employ extraneous items or measures. It gets to feel unavoidable.
How I get those words out of my head is with other fun and ridiculous words or phrases.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is a fun one. The phony translation of what the name means is fantastic in every sense: “You fish on your side; I fish on my side; nobody fishes in the middle.”
Of course I probably don’t say the name right, though it is so much fun to try..
A phrase that chases unwanted words out of my brain is: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It cracks me up to say it over and over. And it manages to answer a lot of questions. “How is it there are so few brain cells in Government?”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Obviously.
The final way I can offer is this: music. Find a fabulously talented artist with a novelty song and listen to that song on repeat until you have it memorized. That song will replace any word trapped in your brain, no question.
My go to song lately is “My United States of Whatever” by Liam Lynch.
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